Bret Baier

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Bret Baier who was born on August 4, 1970 is a
well-known name of America’s T.V channels. He served as the networks’ Chief
White House Correspondent and Pentagon Correspondent however, got real fame by
his splendid anchoring on the Fox News Channel as the host of Special Report
with Bret Baier, which is considered as one of the top-rated cable news program
during 6-7PM/ET.

Biography

William Bret Baier is a Roman Catholic who was
raised in Dunwoody, Georgia. She received his early education from a private
Roman Catholic school named Marist High school, then joined Depauw University
situated in Greencastle, Indiana from where he received his graduation in 1992
majoring Political Science and English. He started his television career with a
local station and got first break through in 1988 when he sent an audition tape
to the Fox News Channel and they hired him to work as the network’s Atlanta
Bureau Chief. In 2001, He was asked to cover the Pentagon attack for which
he went to Arlington, Virginia from Georgia thus never returned back to Atlanta
Bureau and keep recording the tapes for almost five years remaining at the post
of network’s Pentagon Correspondent. As a chief correspondent he covered
exclusive famous issues like Timothy McVeigh
execution, 1999 Elian Gonzalez story, Cuba reports series and coverings of
hurricanes. He was also named as the Fox News’ network’s Chief White House
Correspondent when he covered the administration of George W. Bush in 2007.

During the political season of 2012 to 2014 he provided exclusive coverage of every single moment up till the elections
results along with Megyn Kelly on the Fox News Channel thus succeeded in
catching the viewer’s eye through his excellent style of covering the news and
the channel had been received 6.6 million viewers on mid-term election night
due to his brilliant election coverage and the anchoring of Democratic and
Republican conventions along with presidential and vice presidential speeches.

His program The Special Report with he was
also awarded the title of ‘straight newscast’ by time magazine because of his
potential and energetic style of anchoring. He has interviewed dozens of
important political leaders including President Barack
Obama, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and also
Hillary Clinton. He also aired his program from 74 countries of the world and
gave more than 30 very special reports in which 12 were from Iraq and 13 were
from Afghanistan.

He is not only a good anchor person but had also
proved himself as a very best author when he came up with his book named
‘Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love’ which after
sometime became the New-York Times best-seller and still is at the top of
people’s choice.

Apart from the professional career he is also a
family man and is happily married to Amy Baier with whom he has two sons. Due
to his charismatic personality people drool over his anchoring and love the way
he covers news in his programs.